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t. i. p. 82, which were published immediately after my return from the Siberian 

 Expedition ; as well as my Asie Centrale, in which I have combated the opinion 

 expressed by Klaproth, which I had also myself previously entertained, and which 

 was rendered probable by the connection of the snowy mountains of the Hima- 

 laya with the Chinese province of Yun-nan and the Nauling, north-west of 

 Canton. The mountains of Formosa, which are more than 11,700 feet high, 

 belong, as do the Ta-ju-ling which bound the Foo-kien on the west, to the same 

 system of north and south fissures as those of Upper Assam in the Birman coun- 

 try, and the group of the Philippines. 



( 49 ) p. 362. Dana, Geology of the Explor. Exped. vol. x. p. 540 545 ; Ernst 

 Hofmann, Geogn. Beob. auf der Reise von Otto v. Kotzebue, S. 70; Le'op. de 

 Buch, Descr. Phys. des lies Canaries, p. 435 439. Compare Don Antonio 

 Morati's large and excellent Chart of the Islas Filipinas (Madrid, 1852), in two 

 sheets. 



( 491 ) p. 362. Marco Polo distinguishes (Part. III. cap. v. and viii.) Giava 

 minore (Sumatra), where he staid five months, and where he describes the ele- 

 phants, not found in Java (Humboldt, Examen crit. de 1'Hist. de la Ge'ogr. t. ii. 

 p. 218), from the earlier-described Giava (maggiore), "la quale, secondo di- 

 cono i marinai, che bene lo sanno, e 1' isola piu grande che sia al mondo." This 

 assertion is still true. According to the outlines of the coast of Borneo and 

 Celebes by James Brooke and Capt. Rodney Mundy, I find the area of Borneo 

 12,920 (German geographical) square miles, only one tenth of the area of the 

 continent of New Holland. Marco Polo's accounts of the "much gold and 

 great, riches which the mercanti di Zaiton e del Mangi bring from thence," 

 show that he as well as Martin Behaim on the Nuremberg Globe of 1492, and 

 Johann Ruysch in his Roman edition of Ptolemy of 1508 (so important for 

 the history of the discovery of America), means by Java major, Borneo. 



C 182 ) p. 363. Captain Mundy's Chart (Coast of Borneo Proper, 1847) even 

 gives 14,000 feet. For doubts respecting this elevation, see Junghuhn's Java, 

 Bd. ii. S. 850. Kina Bailu is not a conical mountain ; its form is much more 

 like that of those basaltic mountains found in all zones of the earth, which form 

 a long ridge with two terminal cupolas. 



( 493 ) p. 363. Brooke's Borneo and Celebes, vol. ii. p. 382, 384, and 386. 



( 494 ) p. 364. Homer, in the Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genoot- 

 schap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Deel xviii. (1839) p. 284 ; Asie Centr. 

 t. iii. p. 534537. 



( 495 ) p. 364. Junghuhn, Java, Bd. ii. S. 809 (Battalander, Bd. i. S. 39). 

 C 496 ) p. 364 Kosmos, Bd. iv. Anm. 86 to S. 326 (English edit. Note 410). 

 C 497 ) p. 365. Java, Bd. ii. S. 818828. 



